When you're digging through the internet and reading essays, articles, or even having an argument with a person, it's often tough to immediately spot where the argument breaks down. Professor of ...

The Obama administration had four Supreme Court Justices quite plainly on its side Wednesday in the latest fight over the new health care law, but that may be all that it had because there was no way ...

You and your partner consider yourselves pretty good communicators, but let’s face it—occasionally you both lose your tempers and sometimes, you wish you could have a professional mediator in the room ...

Most of us enjoy a good argument, not a fight, but an argument, a lively exchange of contradictory ideas. Arguing is an ancient and noble activity, one of the best ways to stimulate the sluggish brain ...

Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi’s fond documentary “The 50 Year Argument” (airing Monday night on HBO) looks back on five decades of the venerable New York Review of Books, a twice-monthly journal ...

Arguments are a part of life, and navigating them effectively can often feel like an art. One subtle yet powerful tool in winning an argument is the phrase "part of me." When used thoughtfully, this ...

At 11 a.m. on Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hold one hour of oral argument on the constitutionality of the government’s ban on “indecency” on television and radio, in the case of Federal ...

News from earlier this year indicated that the NFL was attempting to eradicate the use of the n-word on its fields, and somehow that led to a recent declaration from Piers Morgan that black people ...

Not every argument ends in noise. Sometimes it ends in a gesture — a cup left paid for, a door held open, a stranger choosing gentleness instead of winning. Here are stories from Internet users where ...